eric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 04 2006 | elliot perlman, books, writing, Australia
This is the reference page an Australian Bookstore made for Elliot Perlman. It includes links to all of his current works as well as a bit more information about him. This was a great quote about wht he was trying to do with "Seven Types of Ambiguity," the novel I just read:
Quoted: "…I don't shrink from the fact that this is an attempt, anyway, to be a serious examination of contemporary Australian society, and I'm not saying that Australia needs me to do it. I think Australia needs 'people' to do it, generally. And I'll stick my neck out and say I don't think it's done often enough. And that's not to criticise any particular writers or any particular book, because there's some outstanding writers of Australian literary fiction, so there's no sub-text in here. I'm not pointing the finger at anybody. I'm just saying that if we, as a society, aggregated, don't produce anybody that's writing about all the terrible things that have been happening to our society in the last ten or twenty years; you've got to ask questions about the maturity of our culture."
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